Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:

Background check of owner and any transferee;

Type and serial number of the firearm;

Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;

Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and

Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration.

The last paragraph is last for a reason. The Senator knows that registering currently legal firearms could only be desired for one reason: confiscation. A large segment of the American population would never want the government learning what guns they do or don’t have. Look at the outrage in New York when a liberal newspaper released the names and addresses of all gun permit holders in some counties.

Privacy, individual rights, basic human rights – call it what you will. The government has no right to know what we do in our homes unless a crime is committed.

The ATF is not currently informed of the type and serial number of a firearm bought by citizens. The identifying characteristics of the gun are NOTread to the FBI when a background check is performed by a licensed gun dealer. The purpose of the background check is only to insure that the purchaser is legally able to own a firearm – not inform the government of the particular firearm they purchased.

The transfer of the firearm is kept by the individual federal firearms licensee (FFL). Those records are not given to the government unless necessary in an investigation. Requiring that these purchases are registered with the government is unthinkable and eerily equivalent to an invasion of privacy or search without warrant. If I have not committed a crime, there is no probable cause allowing anyone to know what firearms I may or may not have.

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Dianne needs to be told that what she proposes is unConstitutional and will not be allowed to continue in the process but rather be thrown out as a bill or any other legislation, or any part of any legislation. Like, the Socialist Democrats stick something good in something bad in order to pass the bad thing in order to get the good thing. When Bush was in office there was several things that he went ahead and signed into law even though he believed that it was bad and destructive to our nation. The reasoning was that he believed that once those things were challenged in court the court would find them unConstitutional and throw them out. Well, guess what? When they were challenged it was the court that threw the challenge out, not the law. The liberal judges the Democrats had in their back pockets worked for them, and not the Constitution.

The same for this piece of garbage bill from the Socialist Feinstein. Once it passed, we would never be able to challenge it in court. And like the government is NOT supposed to do, the bill goes into full affect even though it’s been challenged and yet has not been found to be Constitutional. And until it has or not, it should be not enforced in order to keep any harm from being done. But see the government doesn’t see things that way. They think as long as there is nothing in print, that means it’s okay. It’s not really, but that is the way evil operates, in anything.

I strongly believe the things being by Fiensten, Biden, and Oboma and oh let me tell you a a hole slew of idiots in illinois is treason. This is the exact thing all the generations past have fought and died for to keep out of our country.